Sentences with phrase «of the human condition in»

Elsewhere, Berger elaborates by pointing out that religions provide legitimation and meaning in a distinctly «sacred» mode, that they offer claims about the nature of ultimate reality as such, about the location of the human condition in relation to the cosmos itself.

As Jesus» will was always centred on the Father and his mind was not clouded by the attractions of sin, he was able to grasp the true tragedy of our human condition in a way that only great saints have understood.

Expressive cinematography, brooding sound design, and minimal use of spoken dialogue help create a surreal cinematic examination of the human condition in conflict with death.

The understanding of the human condition in the world requires a break with the positivism thinking of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which reduces and separates the subject from the object, and that confuses social development with economic growth.

The best stories often speak to us obliquely, and speak of the human condition in a profound way — in truths that can not be seen as clearly in other ways.

You are also learning from some of the most acute observers of the human condition in the history of western civilization, to wit: Homer, Plato, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Cicero, just to name a few.

Q: You've taken on some of the biggest questions of the human condition in this book, and yet you've approached them through very familiar experiences: parenting fears, breastfeeding, board games, children's literature, adolescence, etc..

Cody Forest Doucette has spent the past eight years circling the globe in pursuit of images and experiences which capture both the beauty of the natural world and the complexity of the human condition in the 21st century.

Because there is no sign of the human condition in this mess.

I am trying to search out and create a language of intervention appropriate to our time and to the emerging crises of the human condition in the 21st century.»

Since the 1970s, Muntadas has given attention to «media landscapes» (mass media, symbols, images and slogans) that allow him to investigate contemporary phenomena associated with political, cultural and educational dynamics, revealing and denouncing its instrinsic mechanisms and opening up a broader scrutiny of the human condition in an age of advanced capitalism.

Hulda D. Robbins (1910 - 2011) was inspired by Kathe Kollwitz, a German artist whose work captured a harsh account of the human condition in the early 20th century.

This is perception with a new focus: Smithson invests a dilapidated hotel with the aura of ancient Mayan architecture, Hybert swims upstream in psycho - economic currents, and Carsten Höller analyzes the social, biological, and physiological processes of the human condition in the form, for instance, of self - strangulating flowers.

Using references that span the history of civilisation and include everything from language to ancient warfare, Alfraji details this aspect of the human condition in drawings, a video animation, and ready - made objects.

In Wicht, 2006, Thomas Schütte reassesses the figurative traditions of sculpture, presenting emotionally charged observations of the human condition in the form of a roughhewn bronze bust.

These artists are known for their examination of the human condition in works that range from the piercingly frank to the precariously bleak.

He has developed a complex system of symbols consisting of various pictograms and colors as a means of tackling the question of the structure of the world, and with his system he aims to portray in symbols every aspect of the human condition in different combinations.

Mireille de la Lez, photographer with the Wild Wonders of Europe project, sums up the essence of the human condition in the face of the great predators which are some of the few animals that compete with humans for the top of the food chain.

Not exact matches

«A cascade of changing business conditions, changing organizational structures, and changing leadership has been forcing human resource departments to alter their perspectives on their role and function almost overnight,» wrote John Johnston in Business Quarterly.

«If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus's clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions,» Patrick Irwin, a physicist at the University of Oxford who led the new study, said in the press release.

Perhaps most intriguing is how Johnson can relate seemingly unrelated inventions - such as the invention of air conditioning - to the largest migration of humans in history.

A government source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Harper intends to raise human rights concerns in a «frank dialogue» with the Chinese leadership — an issue the source described as a «delicate balance.»

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

In short the need for actions and policies on many fronts has never been so great — yet the political comprehension and agenda is bankrupt of the will deal with the most salient matters facing the human condition.

«Liberalism, socialism, and pragmatism may all be termed optimistic in the sense that they are all premised on the idea that the application of reason to human social and political conditions will ultimately result in the melioration of these conditions.

It should limit Autopilot's operation only to those conditions, and have a far more effective system to sense, verify, and safely react when the human driver's level of engagement in the driving task is insufficient or when the driver fails to react to warnings.

Part of the challenge in managing millennials, Sinek said, is counteracting their social conditioning by providing a work atmosphere that emphasizes longer - term rewards and human interaction.

Within that century and a half there's some good news about the global human condition that ought to be kept in mind when remembering the bad news of the twentieth century and the early twenty - first.

In sharp contrast to feeling better, we are forced to confront the reality that sin has infected everyone and everything on this planet and that if anything is true of the human condition, it's that it is not something that should make us «feel better.»

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

In like manner, the preaching and theology shaped by new critical presumptions to illumine the human condition hid from us that the human condition we were illuminating was that of the bourgeoisie.

I see Orthodox Christians living in dirt poor conditions who to their deaths from ISIS with an attitude that transcends the worst of human behaviour.

martinpaul i tend to think that religion only understands the human condition in terms of which god you believe in.

They note that he has been a powerful voice in defense of the sanctity of human life in all stages and conditions and marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife, though they do not praise him for that as I would.

We deeply admire your profound commitment and bold witness to the sanctity of human life in all stages and conditions and to the protection of the poor, the weak, and the vulnerable from womb to tomb.

I wouldn't call Spenser a greater poet, but he saw the human condition and our often - anguished journey toward God in a richer, more humane way than Milton did, who at the end of the day was more interested in ideas than people.

By my reading of both the human condition and our current culture, a project like Hart's is more important to the status of religion in public life than, say, arguments for a natural law.

Although these threads often degenerate, the simple act of engagement in the discussion provides a means to examine one's position and how it relates to what we might agree is a shared goal in mitigating suffering and improving the human condition.

A Whiteheadian political theory, then, should have due regard for the biological and «material» conditions of human existence, recognizing that these yield their own measure of self - enjoyment.11 Also included in private happiness are the nonshared aspects of the individual's dialogue with himself or herself.

Stating that men have been killed in Chittagong's shipbreaking yards on the coast of southern Bangladesh, he said: «This work is carried out in very hazardous conditions and claims innumerable human lives.»

Not only that, but because the «rule of law» is itself part of the common good — i.e., it is one of those «conditions» that is conducive to human flourishing — it is part of lawmakers» vocation, and something they are obligated to do, to make law in accord with the rules - laid - down.»

I just find my source to be much more reliable than that of one which is mired in the human condition.

In short, the human condition entails genuinely natural capacities for religion, which these four tendencies often direct toward the actualized practice of religion.

Such gender constructs are hardly natural or «inherent» in the human condition but they become inescapable or «inherited» dimensions of our human existence.

To be sure, the Word became flesh, identified with us, was tempted in every way as we are, knew the common human condition of suffering and death, and in that identification provided us with not only an example but an intercessor who understands our infirmities.

«I think internalizing the fact that no opinion / belief / enthusiasm inoculates either you or anyone else from the baser aspects of the human condition, or the larger social milieu in which we all exist, is probably a very smart thing to do.

This disbelief in the value of the human body was epitomised by Thomas Hobbes, who wrote: «Man is in the condition of mere nature, which is a condition of war, as private appetite is the measure of good and evil».

The struggles faced today by East and West demand a new insight into the human condition, an insight realized in the cross of a self - giving God and consummated in the response of human love and obedience.

For example, when Pope Benedict XVI was head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he penned the recent On the Collaboration of Men and Women, concluding that feminine values are «above all human values: the human condition of man and woman created in the image of God is one and indivisible.